A Forum on News Media
and Democracy
     When
Thursday, October 8, 2009 Where
Monroe Arts Center Gunderson Stiles Concert Hall MAC Member Tickets
FREE EVENT! Non-Member Tickets
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The ability of our traditional news gathering American media – newspapers, radio, and television – has been hampered over the past decade by the advent of the Internet and a decline in advertising and subscription revenue used to staff newsrooms. The result has been fewer trained reporters and editors to cover increasingly complex issues in a diverse society. At the same time, the National Endowment for the Arts reports a general decline in reading interest and ability among teenage and adult Americans, with foreboding social, economic, cultural, and civic implications. Do we take community journalism for granted? Does journalism add to the quality of our social, civic, and economic well being? Can this potential void be filled by a burgeoning number of Internet Web Sites and the new electronic “social media” such as “Facebook” and “Twitter”? |
